Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South West is £51,729 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 55 128
Rank change year-on-year -93 +73 +45
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 30 404 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.86% 4.18% 2.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 4.35% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 27 277 94
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £34,605
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £41,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,729 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,625 £57,500 £60,875
90th Percentile £80,750 £63,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,320 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.64% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 3,250 9,292 6,021
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 96.17% 89.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,908 6,830 3,704
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,925 £29,788
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,365 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,729 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,187 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,250 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +20 13 £60,000 +26.32% 28
Devon -2 6 £49,615 +10.25% 1
Dorset +5 3 £83,750 +67.50% 3
Gloucestershire -23 3 £55,000 +2.80% 18
Somerset -23 2 £47,500 +31.03% 15
Wiltshire -36 2 £50,800 +0.59% 10
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (96.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (46.67%) Azure
3 13 (43.33%) PowerShell
4 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 10 (33.33%) VMware
5 10 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (26.67%) Python
7 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
7 7 (23.33%) Windows
7 7 (23.33%) Linux
7 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (23.33%) DevOps
7 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (20.00%) Windows Server
8 6 (20.00%) Docker
8 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (16.67%) Cisco
9 5 (16.67%) ITIL
9 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
9 5 (16.67%) Migration
9 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
9 5 (16.67%) Terraform
9 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
10 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
10 4 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (13.33%) vSphere
10 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
10 4 (13.33%) Hyper-V
10 4 (13.33%) Bash

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.33%) NetWeaver
3 1 (3.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.00%) AWS
4 3 (10.00%) SaaS
5 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
5 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) IaaS
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (3.33%) Dagster
6 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.33%) Google Workspace
6 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.33%) PaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Firewall
1 4 (13.33%) SAN
2 3 (10.00%) LAN
3 2 (6.67%) BGP
3 2 (6.67%) Network Security
3 2 (6.67%) OSPF
3 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.67%) VLAN
3 2 (6.67%) VPN
3 2 (6.67%) WAN
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (3.33%) Ethernet
4 1 (3.33%) InfiniBand
4 1 (3.33%) Internet
4 1 (3.33%) MPLS
4 1 (3.33%) NAS
4 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.33%) Unified Communications
4 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) SAP BW
2 1 (3.33%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (3.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Local Government
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Advertising
4 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.33%) Legal
4 1 (3.33%) Military
4 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Web Services
2 1 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.33%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Cyberattack
2 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Linux
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
2 6 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (6.67%) Android
4 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.33%) AIX
5 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.33%) Unix
5 1 (3.33%) Windows 8
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (96.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (23.33%) DevOps
2 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (16.67%) ITIL
3 5 (16.67%) Migration
4 4 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 3 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (10.00%) High Availability
5 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (10.00%) Service Management
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 2 (6.67%) Data Security
6 2 (6.67%) ITSM
6 2 (6.67%) Project Management
6 2 (6.67%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) PowerShell
2 8 (26.67%) Python
3 4 (13.33%) Bash
4 3 (10.00%) SQL
5 2 (6.67%) Bicep
6 1 (3.33%) C
6 1 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) DBS Check
3 2 (6.67%) MCSA
3 2 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (3.33%) CCNA
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
3 6 (20.00%) Docker
4 4 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 4 (13.33%) vSphere
5 2 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
6 1 (3.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (16.67%) Terraform
3 3 (10.00%) Ansible
3 3 (10.00%) SCCM
4 2 (6.67%) SmoothWall
5 1 (3.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (3.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (33.33%) VMware
3 5 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (6.67%) EMC
4 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.33%) 3PAR
5 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.33%) Citrix
5 1 (3.33%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) Juniper
5 1 (3.33%) NVIDIA
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) SAP
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) Veeam
5 1 (3.33%) Zscaler